Wiki History!

Part I Coming to America: Slavery and Abolition   Hi and welcome to the Wiki History lecture series called History is Power! Produced by robinlofton.com where history is power.  In the introductory lecture, we read a journal entry by Jackie Robinson about how he felt that he was living in a fairy tale on the day that joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. His moving entry helped us to understand that fairy tales (or happy endings) can happen to everyone, including you and me. And that is one reason to learn history: inspiration.   Today, we continue our Wiki lecture series about the importance of knowing African American history.  We can ask again: why is history important?   Let’s begin with another journal entry.   Look at www.robinlofton.com for the written excerpt by Frederick Douglass.   That was from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. He very eloquently describes how slaves were treated with such inhumanity, nearly like animals, and kept ignorant of even their identity. And this is